The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-06-10
LATEST NEWS.
Arrival of the Barkentine Discovery
with Two Days Later News.

ige OF II.
The Pennsylvania Railroad proposes t'
tunnel the Hudson river at cost OF $1l,
100.
Colonel Spreckels, Mrs Spreckels an
lis Emma Spreekeis sailed May %.
,om New York in the steamer Saale ft.
urope.
The Royal programme for Victoria's
ZEE has not been definitely fixed. The
III be dinner party June Goth at Buct
l.;ham Palace, banquet on the 22d
yindsor Castle and ball at Buckinghas
'alace on the 9th
The situation of the miners strike .
,eraing, Belgium, is assuming a mon
alarming aspect. Twenty-Five hundre
more miners have left work and are takinj
part in the strike at CharlerOi; 1000 meI
re in the strike, and the appearance O.
affairs is growing more serious.
]. Joseph & Sons, merchants of Birming-
ham, have failed. Liabilities, 100000.
At Athens, Tenn ,aMay 25th, the Board
of Regents of the Grant Memorial Uni
versity unanimously conferred the degree
of Doctor of Laws upon George w. Childs.
The London STANDARD" says that Will
lam O'Brien will not accept the seat in Par
lament for Northeast Cork.
Advices from Panama state that the
traders who have reached that city report
the smallpox raging along the upper
banks of the Amazon.
A Berlin dispatch to the STANDARD"
/, L.
Virchow asserted that there was absolute
ly no danger in Crown Prince Frederick
Williams malady. He said, however
that it would take some time to effect a
cure.
Panama dispatches up to the 18th inst.
say: In one OF the largest cuts in the ca
nal water has been struck. The earth and
rocks taken out of the section referred to
cost millions of dollars, all OF which is
rendered valueless, as the water has
washed from the side of the mountain
more than sufficient to fill all the cut.
A dispatch from Paris, May 25th, says:
Ferry and Byron de Mackau, leader of the
Right in the Chamber of Deputies, visited
President Grevy to-day, in relation to the
recalling of NJ. Floquet to form Cabinet.
They declared the creation of a Floquet
Ministry would Injure the foreign relations
of France. Floquet still continues his ne
gOtiations with the OpportunistS who per-
sist IN their opposition to the retention of
Boulanger in the Cabinet. Rouvier, es-
pecially, refuses to accept the portfolio of
Minister of Finance if General Boulanger
is retained, and if he persists in his re-
fusal it may lead to Floquet's abandoning
the task of forming a new Ministry NJ
FlOquet has refused to form Ministry
and it is now proposed to form a Duclerc
Government, with General Saussier as
Minister of War. President Grevy has
again asked 81 de Freycinet to form a
Cabinet.
LONDON, May 25th.-The rising of Par
Lament naturally suggests a brief retro
spect of the gains and losses during the
past session. son the whole, the losses
strongly predominant for the Home Rule
cause" said Gladstone on famous occa-
sion; but time has been his chief enemy
this session. It is impossible to see him
and not be struck with the lnroads time
is making upon him. His wonderful
voice is gone; his piercing glance is no
longer what it was. Whenever provincial
Liberal who has no. seen Gladstone for
wear oT two comes to town and meets
him face to face he can talk of nothing
else for days but the fact that it is no
longer possible to count on Gladstone to
fl his old place All this has been >in-
creasing very rapidly of late. OF Parnell,
[ can only repeat he looks like a living
corpse. Without changes almost too great
to expect, he will never lead his party
again. Disease, advancing age, the pros
pect of death says leading writer this
morning; "these are the trinity which
buoy up the hearts of Coercionists with
the hope that they may save the paper
union yet" There is a curious story, by
the way, circulating about ParnelI, accord
ing to which his own private physician
does not know exactly the facts about his
illness, as Parnel has from the first re-
fused to tell him, but he has consulted a
specialist now in London, going to him
privately under the name of Charles Stew
art. This specialist, the story of course
adds, does not know who his distinguished
patient is.
The race for the English Derby took
place at EPSON May 25th, and was won by
Merry Hampton, ridden by ]. Watts, The
Baron, by T. Cannon, second, and Marley,
by F. Barrett, third. The last betting was
IL to l against Merry Hampton, to 4
against The Baron (the favorite), 10 to
against Marley, to 1 against Eiridspord,
II to 1 against Aintree, % to 1 against
Blanchard, so to 1 against Grandson, so
to 1 against Porcelain, 100 to l against Sa-
vile, 200 to l against Consolide, 220 to 1
against the Shannon colt. The Prince of
Wales, Lord Roseberry, the Crown Prince
of Denmark and many other persons of
distinction were present.
MCGOWAN, the trusted clerk of the st.
Charles Hotel, Los Angeles, rif1ed the safe
am fed with all the valuables procurable
on May 9th.
The Empire Brewery at Victoria, B. c.. !
was burned May oath. Loss, SIC, 900; in
sured for $4,000.
An Ottawa special of May 18th says
The Dominion Government has applied to